Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-05-20
Written and complied for the HERALD.

consist OF tents aud field barracks
erected near the headquarters of
the Drill, comprising a headquar-
ters tent or barracks, invalid wards,
dispensary diet, kitchens, etc. Pro-
visions are made for one hundred
patients, so you see the soldiers
who may fall sick far from home
will have tho kindest care and
treatment.
The hospital will be under the
entire charge of the Red Cross So
ciety, directed by Miss Clara Bar
ton, the national president, who
will have a dozen local physicians
and surgeons on her staff. AT FIRST
thought the department may ap'
pear to be a very superhuous con
tingent of the event, but when 1t is
considered that there will be about
eight thousand men under constant
exertion, many of whom are unac-
customed to tent lite, and that their
habits of life will be changed as 20
water, food, climate and many 9th
er things, it will be seen that a
number of them will probably be
on the sick list and that the hos
pital is one of the most indispensa-
BILE features of the Drill.
The death of Justice Woods of
the L. S. Supreme Court, whose
body lies in state today in this city
at his late residence, has revived
the gossip as to whom the Presi-
dent will be likely to appoint to the
vacancy on the Supreme Bench
Among the eminent lawyers who
have aspired to occupy seat upon
the highest tribunal of the land,
Attorney General Garland is nat
urally the first person thought of,
as his ambitions have long been
known. Speaker Carlisle is also
mentioned as a man who could,
perhaps, secure the appointment if
he desired it. Up to short time
ago it is known that the Speaker
would have been glad to have re.
tired from political life with an as
sured future IN so honorable and
agreeable a position, but it is
thought he has since imbibed am
billions which have changed his
feelings in this regard.
Hon. Randolph Tucker, of Vir'
ginia, is mentioned as a cOmpe'
tent lawyer, but he would be de-
barred the honor if the rule OF pre-
cedent is followed which directs the
appointment of a Justice from with
in the circuit for which he is select
ed. Ex-senator Mcdonald does
not come within its boundaries, ex'
Senator Thurman has already pass
ed the age of voluntary retirement
from the Supreme Bench, and ex-
Governor Hoadly has friends who
urge that he escapes all grounds OF
objection. They argue that his
state is the proper one from which
to make the selection, that his con-
stitutional views are the advanced
views of his party, that his war rec
ord is unimpeachable, his Legal at
tainments unquestlOnable and his
position financially and politically
such as to make the appointment
specially gracious and deserved
II is many years since a Democrat
&c President had an opportunity to
fill place on the Supreme Bench.
The Supreme Court room in the
Capitol, the doors leading into it,
and the chair formerly occupied by
the late Associate Justice are heav-
lily draped in black. All of the fu-
neral arrangements are in charge Of
the Supreme Court, the Justices of
which will start tonight on a spe.
cial train with the remains to New
ark, Ohio, the old home of the de-
ceased. According to custom in
case of the death of a Justice OF
this tribunal, the Associate Jus.
tees act as honorary pall-bearers
and the remains are carried to the
grave by actual court messengers.
On last Friday President Cleve-
land visited the tomb of George
Washington for the first time in
his life. he went on the invitation
of the widow of Gen. Logan, IN
one of the Regents of the Mount
Vernon Association.
On the following morning another
party which had never before had a
/ trip down the Potomac boarded a
steamer. 1t was the "FOrty.niners'
as thew call the California pioneers
who crossed the plains in 40, and
who have been holding reunion
in this city. Many of them had
passed the allotted span OF three
score years and ten, some were in
the eighties and few OOrdered on
ninety years of age, but as the boat
swung out from the wharf and
started down the sunlit river TO.
ward the planked shad dinner
which was waiting for them below
at Marshall Hall, Judging from their
gay spirits there was not an old
man on board.
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